The Coleman Report argued that family background is a fundamental cause of educational
outcomes, while demonstrating the weak predictive power of variation in expenditures and …

Two recent books on the relation between social origin, education, and occu-pational
attainment have attracted considerable attention for their pessimis-tic conclusions regarding …

Economists have long argued that family background I eschew the term" social class"
because its meaning is obscure and because its recent use in economics has impeded clear …

Family income may have a direct or indirect impact on children's academic outcomes. 3,000
schools, nearly 600,000 students, and thousands of teachers, and produced by a team led …

Family background has been prominent in models of educational attainment. In most
research, family background has been measured by socioeconomic indicators (eg, parents' …

This study examines whether and how adolescents' relative deprivation in school is
associated with their years of education by incorporating the social comparison perspective …

This book is an example of a new activity among social scientists. The activity has two
components. The first, less new than the second, but important in the development of social …

In every society for which we have data, people's educational achievement is positively
correlated with their parents' education or with other indicators of their parents' socio …

Researchers have long been interested in understanding why a Strong relationship
between family income and educational attainment exists at virtually all levels of schooling …